A digitally enabled government for a digital world by Socitm
Digital Engagement Event 09 – Martin Ferguson View more presentations from LGEOResearch. Liz AzyanLiz Azyan is interested in the ways…
Digital Engagement Event 09 – Martin Ferguson View more presentations from LGEOResearch. Liz AzyanLiz Azyan is interested in the ways…
This event was run by no other than my good Twitterati friend and also one of the founding members of “Epic Visionaries” – Mr. Andrew Beeken (The Amazing Spiderman!).
Agency websites are becoming more critical to achieving a wide range of mission goals and objectives ranging from communication to service delivery as well as transparency and open government initiatives.
For the past few months, the Camden webteam has been working on the redesign of our website. There will be a lot of improvements to how the website will work from a design and usability point of view.
Simon Green is the Organisation Development Advisor at Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council as well as Learning Pool’s recipient of Ambassador of the Year 2009.
For the past few months, I’ve been working part of Camden’s webteam in redesigning the new website. The first stage of this project, which is the design (look and feel) of the website is due to launch end of July/early August.
Yesterday I had the time of my life! I had gotten the opportunity to join other girl geeks in London as part of a “London Girl Geek Dinners” event at Regent St. I thought it would be an interesting thing to share anyways with my readers.
This blog post is based on the interview I gave to E-Gov Bulletin recently on hyperlocal websites relationship with local authorities and Camden Council’s new website overview.
This blog post talks about Camden Council’s Digital Strategy to include hyperlocal websites with featured interview clips with Will Perrin from Talk About Local.
This blog post marks the release of LGEO Research 1st White Paper titled “Government-to-Citizen Communications: Utilising multiple digital channels effectively”.
So, tomorrow I’m releasing my 1st White Paper on how local government can communicate better with citizens using multiple channels on limited cost.
The first on the scene was the empowered patient. Patients are participating in online communities to share and discuss daily life struggles to coping with rare diseases.
This blog post features a list of social networks found online for medical practitioners.
We are now still in the first phase of Camden Council’s website redesign. There are 3 core phases in this project, that Alasdair explains in detail in the video.
This blog posts highlight some of the other web development blogs within UK’s local government and how they are increasing transparency for citizens.
This blog post looks into those perceptions, both good and bad of why people want to resist or embrace social media within the medical e-learning environment within the NHS.
The first on the scene was the empowered patient. Patients are participating in online communities to share and discuss daily life struggles to coping with rare diseases. Here I’ve compiled a list of inspirational web 2.0 and social media stuff by patients for patients.
This blog post includes some slides with examples of how Scotland is using social media to engage with citizens.
This blog post highlights the challenges faced by all these stakeholders and hopefully better inform e-learning practices for medical students within the NHS trust.
This blog post lists down some examples of how medical practitioners can use social media. Check out the weblinks to see it in practice. Hopefully these examples will inspire people in government to use social media in more creative and effective ways.
This blog post highlights some of the useful and valuable social media and web 2.0 examples in e-learning for health informatics from around the world. Hope these examples will help inform the health community of interesting and effective e-learning practices out there.
This blog post talks about the election and features a video on vote on power and useful websites to help you decide your vote.
It was important for this project to carry out usability testing’s that accurately explored the problems and barriers users face when using our website.
For Camden’s Website Redesign Project, we conducted some user interviews and contextual enquiries for this project and you might be wondering what sort of questions we asked.
For the past few months on this project, we have been going through several user research sessions using different approaches. From focus groups to individual user testing’s in the users home.
Interview with Gemma Walford – Service Improvement Manager for Culture and Environment and Chris Carr – Customer Service Programme Manager.
Here you will find my interview with Don Tapscott who has authored or co-authored thirteen books on the application of technology in business and society.
Tom Steinberg runs MySociety which is a small open-source virtual non-profit. A well known example of MySociety in the UK is FixMyStreet. He also talks about MySociety newest website “WhatDoTheyKnow?” at the Personal Democracy Forum Europe 2009.
I love it when I can find inspiring speakers and stories to inspire and encourage social media adoption in all aspects of our lives.
Tony has kindly started this list and it would be great if others can help to build upon it. The knowledge can surely help all of us to better use Twitter as a tool for communication with citizens more effectively and efficiently.
I recently attended the Personal Democracy Forum Europe 09 in Barcelona and sat in a talk with one of our beloved Tom Watson to find what he and other speakers had to say about how the internet is changing politics.
Just a few weeks ago, Charlie Leadbeater gave a great keynote speech at the Personal Democracy Forum Europe 09 in Barcelona.
As mentioned before, I was due to present at the Pre-Conference for the EU 5th Ministerial eGovernment Conference last week.
Yesterday I had the great pleasure of meeting the CivicoLive team while they were setting up their gear for PdF Europe 2009.
I thought I’d drop a post to inform what I’ll be up to this week. I’ll be mostly in Europe, firstly Sweden then followed by Barcelona.
So its been a been a while since LocalGovCamp Lincoln but its never too late to share all those juicy details for all your reading and viewing
It was certainly interesting to learn that the Better Connected report will also be reporting on local government social media usage in next year’s report!
Its quite interesting to see throughout my research that there are still some traditional web ‘thinking’ going on within the public sector that deters them from fully exploiting the new web’s potential and opportunities. But this is not due to the lack in sufficient technology or gadgets.
Being a student and possibly sometimes out of the loop on innovative things like this, it was refreshing to listen to Joss Winn talk about WriteToReply.org.
So as you guys already know, I was at the LocalGovCamp in Lincoln last Friday and was fortunate enough to talk to Andrew Beeken (in video above), who was “the man of the hour” and ask him about what he thought about the whole unconference.
With budget cuts looming, there is a greater need to be more innovative in delivering public services online and self-services can be used to deliver more for less. So local council website s are looking like a more attractive channel to move away from the costly business of servicing customer enquiries via the phone or face-to-face to self-service through the local council website.
Now, I know its kind of funny that every time we mention e-petitions, our minds go directly to Number 10’s e-petition facility. Even when I was in the states attending the Participation Camp, they kept on talking about how wonderful the Number 10 e-petition system was.
Some delegates give their feedback on the Digital Engagement Event in London on 6th of October 2009.
While I was at the Digital Engagement Event, I managed to catch up with Nick Appleyard who prepared David Bott’s presentation slides about “Universal connectivity 2012”. Nick is Technology Strategy Board’s Lead Technologist and he talks in detail about the Digital Britain Testbed in this interview.
Thank you for all your pics! I compiled all the pics that were clear. Sorry if yours didn’t make it, it was only because it was hard to see what was written.
Here’s a collection of interviews I did during my social reporting job at Socitm09. You can find more about the event at the official blog http://www.socitm09.net
As mentioned by Adrian Hancock (Socitm MD) in his blog post on the Socitm blog here. I have been assigned to tweet throughout the Socitm’s Annual Conference taking place on the 11th – 13th October in Edinburgh.
This session kicked off with the Chairman’s (@MichaelCross) welcome and introduction speech. I have to say, one of the joys of covering for events like this is getting to meet people like Michael who is an experienced professional journalist.
An interview with Josh Bernoff, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research. Over the past thirteen years, Mr. Bernoff has become one of America’s most frequently quoted research analysts.
Beth Kanter is a trainer, blogger, and consultant to nonprofits and individuals in effective use of social media.